The Hello and welcome to the Forcecast author series. I am your host

Steve Dunk from the Force dot net and everything is canon podcast. Thanks for

tuning in. On this show each and every episode will have a spoiler laden

chat with authors from you guessed it the world of Star Wars

be it books novels comic books RPGs and even video games they wrote something for Star, we want to talk to them.

If there's an author you'd like to see on the show,

email me at Steve at the Force.net, and I'll do my best to accommodate.

Even if there's a topic you'd like to see discussed with one of the authors,

email me that as well.

So let's get going and have a chat with today's guest, the author of the incredible new book,

Star Wars A Crash of Fate, which happens to be your first Star Wars novel, Zorida Cardova.

Again, if you haven't read what we're about to talk about and you want to avoid any and all

spoilers, please stop listening now and please come back to us after you've read the book. Enjoy. Okay, so Zorida, thank you so much for

talking with me today. I really appreciate it. First things, first, congratulations on your first Star Wars novel. Thank you so much. I'm so excited.

The response from what I've been hearing and seeing has been pretty great so far. I mean I know it's not released yet but the buzz from

other people who get early copies and then the buzz from San Diego has just been

great so first just telling me let's start off with San Diego.

Tell me how is your weekend there and how did you feel the response was to the book?

I know again a lot of people haven't had a chance to read it yet but even just

the idea behind the book and the fact that it's your first one and

that you're writing it is how did you how was the mojo how was the love in

San Diego the love was pretty incredible I, we sold out of books. It was the first time it was on sale. I'm first to market at San Diego Comic Con and

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